Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans
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How are people okay with this?
People don't have to be okay with it. Just the 20% of the population who votes for these assholes. Our system of government makes sure a minority can rule as long as their population density is sufficiently low.
I don't know if you're from Louisiana but the percentage of voters electing these guys is much higher than 20%.
I'm from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.
Given that only about 36% of the eligible voting population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.
With that turnout it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.
Australia had a bad turnout once and the illegitimate government got tired of being rightfully called illegitimate and said from now on everyone votes, and it helped a little bit.
That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It'll never happen
I always wondered how it came about, Wws the govt that introduced it rewarded by being proven to be illegitimate? I could easily imagine they'd get pounded at the next election just for forcing people to come out and vote when they'd rather not!